Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema [Paperback]

Identifying who was inside and who was outside the Soviet/Russian body politic has been a matter of intense and violent urgency, especially in the high Stalinist and post-Soviet periods. It is a theme encountered prominently in film. Employing a range of interpretive methods practiced in Russian/Soviet film studies, Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema highlights the varied ways that Russian and Soviet cinema constructed otherness and foreignness. While the essays explore the us versus them binary well known to students of Russian culture and the ways in which Russian films depicted these distinctions, the book demonstrates just how impossible maintaining this binary proved to be.

Contributors are Anthony Anemone, Julian Graffy, Peter Kenez, Joan Neuberger, Stephen M. Norris, Oleg Sulkin, Yuri Tsivian, Emma Widdis, and Josephine Woll.

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Introduction: Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema / Stephen M. Norris

1. The Foreigner's Journey to Consciousness in Early Soviet Cinema: The Case of Protazanov's Tommi / Julian Graffy
2. The Wise and Wicked Game: Reediting, Foreignness, and Soviet Film Culture of the Twenties / Yuri Tsivian
3. Dressing the Part: Clothing Otherness in Soviet Cinema before 1953 / Emma Widdis
4. Under the Big Top: America Goes to the Circus / Josephine Woll
5. Eisenstein's Cosmopolitan Kremlin: Drag Queens, Circus Clowns, Slugs, and Foreigners in Ivan the Terrible / Joan Neuberger
6. The Picture of the Enemy in Stalinist Films / Peter Kenez
7. Identifying the Enemy in Contemporary Russian Film / Oleg Sulkin
8. About Killers, Freaks, and Real Men: The Vigilante Hero of Aleksei Balabanov's Films / Anthony Anemone
9. Fools and Cuckoos: The Outsider as Insider in Post-Soviet War Films / Stephen M. Norris

List of Contributors
Volume Editors
Index